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Phone Tap: I Wanna Hear You Work · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: It's time for your phone tap. And remember when pretty
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  Speaker 1: much everyone worked remotely because of COVID, when they forced
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  Speaker 1: everybody back into the offices. Wait, what's COVID?
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're left with the lucky few who still
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  Speaker 1: get to type in their pajamas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good for you. Hang on tight.
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  Speaker 1: And so today we call a guy who just started
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  Speaker 1: a new position working from home, and we want to
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  Speaker 1: introduce him to his boss. Oh, she's a little overbearing,
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  Speaker 1: tad bit controlling, and I think he's going to understand
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  Speaker 1: the reason why the person before him quit. When you
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  Speaker 1: hear your phone tap right now, it's another.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, is this jermy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: I'm calling from Corporate Human Resources. My name's Loretta PLoP.
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  Speaker 2: How are you.
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  Speaker 3: I love that you asked. I'm fantastic, and I love
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  Speaker 3: to see that you recently got hired. Congratulations, Yes, thank you,
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  Speaker 3: thank you. So how is your first week working remotely?
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  Speaker 2: Huh? Yeah, it's going pretty good. Thanks, it's great. So
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  Speaker 2: so far, so good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you probably heard about what happened to the
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  Speaker 3: last guy we had in your role.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know, Actually I didn't know about that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, he worked from home too, until we learned
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  Speaker 3: he was grossly abusing company time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's bad. Yeah, that's terrible.
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  Speaker 3: You know. It wasn't as much goofing off for doing
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  Speaker 3: non work tasks during work hours. He just was really
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  Speaker 3: inefficient and couldn't handle quality coaching from yours truly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, that's that's terrible.
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  Speaker 3: You know, i'd like to ask you you like to
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  Speaker 3: be coached? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I'm open to it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh great. We're on the same page then, So
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  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna listen in while you do your thing
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  Speaker 3: for the next six hours.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry for the in six hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I wouldn't even worry about it. You won't
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  Speaker 3: notice me quiet as a mouse over here, So go ahead,
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  Speaker 3: just start working.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so hard to explain myself over and over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna put the phone on speaker and then go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and do your work.
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  Speaker 2: So you're going to listen to me do my work.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a problem with coaching, Jeremy, because I'm
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  Speaker 3: sensing some pushback.
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  Speaker 2: No, no problem.
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  Speaker 3: That's good because that's the one thing Loretta PLoP doesn't
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  Speaker 3: stand for.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was just trying to be clear. If that's all,
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  Speaker 2: I've made.
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  Speaker 3: It pretty clear. So no, we're talking because that would
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  Speaker 3: be considered an abuse of company time.
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  Speaker 2: So just do my work, that's right, okay, mm hmm?
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  Speaker 3: Sorry they interrupted? Is that a TV in the background?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what I'm picking up on?
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  Speaker 2: No, just neighbors.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, could you put them on the phone. I can
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  Speaker 3: just chat with them a little bit. I'd like to
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  Speaker 3: speak with.
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  Speaker 2: Them with my neighbors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to tell them to shut the up.
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  Speaker 2: They don't bother me. I can stay focused.
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  Speaker 3: If you say so. We'll let this one slide this time.
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  Speaker 4: Just keep working, Okay, what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 2: Is that part of the job you?
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  Speaker 3: Could you hear that? Yeah, I'm just humming along. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, what are you working on?
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  Speaker 2: Un excel doctor? For the new quarterly numbers? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Interesting, I thought I heard you typing slower than that.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe putting in a lunch order?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, okay, okay, good because your break doesn't happen
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  Speaker 3: for another two hours and thirteen minutes. Sorry, I thought
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  Speaker 3: I heard your neighbors again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't there like a noise ordinance in your neighborhood?
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  Speaker 2: It's an apartment building.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I haven't been in an apartment in two decades, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Respectfully. How about I just do my job and you
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  Speaker 2: can call and checking on me from time to time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, respectfully, that's a terrible idea. Why don't you just
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  Speaker 3: keep working?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh, I see getting a little angry.
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  Speaker 2: Are we what?
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  Speaker 3: Not my place to be your therapist? But you are
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  Speaker 3: hitting the enerchy a little too loudly, showing subtle signs
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  Speaker 3: of aggression. To make a note of that one.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, I'm beginning to understand why the guy before
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  Speaker 2: me didn't like the coaching.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting because your girlfriend, Taylor said that you would
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  Speaker 3: love to be micromanaged.
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  Speaker 2: My girlfriend, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Talked to her right before we made this prank phone call.
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  Speaker 3: No freaking way, no, this is actually Bragg for the
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  Speaker 3: radio show Brick at Jeffrey in the morning, and this
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  Speaker 3: is a phone tap.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. I was like, what is going on?
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  Speaker 2: You listen to me working on HR.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not HR. But she did tell us you just
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  Speaker 3: got a new remote job and you were a little
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  Speaker 3: worried about their management style.
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  Speaker 2: When you told me you wanted to talk to my neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what is wrong with this lady?
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  Speaker 3: But honestly, they're really loud, Like what are they doing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a common space, it's like the best place for
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  Speaker 2: me to work.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't work for Loretta PLoP.
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  Speaker 2: All right, yeah, not a lot of stuff does.
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  Speaker 3: You're not wrong there. Wake Up every morning was phone
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  Speaker 3: tab weekday mornings on the twenties, breaking Jeffrey in the Morning,